Would you agree that poets are born, not made? Scott Cairns: I don’t really have a strong opinion about this, save my strong opinion that—regardless of how poets and essayists come to be—the issue of their being worth reading has far more to do with their manifesting the hard work of having read widely and well than it has to do with any genetic disposition. In my experience, the literary artist is first of all a reader. I’m talking about the necessary work of engaging the conversation before one presumes to enter it.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:39:28 +0000
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